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by password03
2763 days ago
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This is cool and seems to have a nice flow to it. Not as data intensive as Crunchbase making it easier to read for general knowledge / trivia about a company / product. I think CB is more focused on the finer details of a company for people to make business decisions. How are you curating the database? I have been kicking around FinTECH Report http://www.fintechreport.info for a while now but curation is just such a de-motivator for me. I was hoping that the respective owners/managers of a product might "take ownership" of the listings and manage them... I would love to hear how you solve for that. P.S. I looked up Twitter and Biz Stone wasn't in the founder list. I'm sorry i'm not motivated to sign up and fix it. Honestly, i'm just not bothered to help out as a site visitor....but... I would hold it against the site if it missed such critical details as that. (Not trying to be harsh, just honest realistic feedback, if that's ok). :) Good work though and interested to see where it goes. |
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I've been doing the data by hand in order to dog food my UX. I'm not a designer and really the only way for me to fix UX is to feel a potential user's pain. Another reason for this is because at one point I was considering running this as a for profit project, so I couldn't use APIs like Crunchbase's without running into complications; and I didn't want to just scrape. The last reason is that the data just isn't there. I'm capturing data that no one else cares about. What's sad is that most visitors don't even see how deep of a rabbit hole this can be because they just seem to have no interest in making a 2nd or even 3rd click. (Of course the blame lies with me for not making a compelling enough UX and/or copywriting.) For details, read my other comments in this thread.
Thanks for checking it out.
PS if you or anyone has anything you don't like or really like let me know. Feel free to not be nice - I find those responses to be the most useful